In the aftermath of their revolution, the French public turned to British history as a way of making sense of its recent past. French artist Paul Delaroche was particularly inspired by English ...(Read More)

The senior curator of Greek and Roman antiquities in the British Museum, Ian Jenkins here surveys the Museum's Parthenon sculptures as prime examples of classical Greek art, as well as how they have ...(Read More)

Design and the decorative arts from the 19th-century Victorian era were known for their intricate ornamentation, reinterpretation of historical styles, and the introduction of artistic and cultural ...(Read More)

"I want to amaze Paris with an apple," French artist Paul Cézanne once said, and he succeeded through his remarkable approach to painting. This book relates the story of the artist's life ...(Read More)

This book follows French painter Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) to Tahiti, where he discovered the vivid colors of the South Seas and—unlike the other Frenchmen living there—sought to understand the ...(Read More)

The life of Paul Gauguin, who left his family and his career as a stockbroker behind in France to pursue his artistic inspiration in Tahiti, is told here through the eyes of his daughter Aline, the ...(Read More)

"May the day come—and perhaps soon—when I can flee to the woods on a South Sea island and live there in ecstasy, in peace and for art," Paul Gauguin wrote to his wife, Mette, in 1890. As both art ...(Read More)

After emigrating from the Netherlands to England in the 1640s, Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680) became Charles II's principal painter and the outstanding artistic figure of Restoration England. Upon ...(Read More)

A close-up portrait of an artist whose name is synonymous with the notion of creative genius, this book traces Pablo Picasso's life from his beginnings in Spain through his many years in Paris and ...(Read More)

Pablo Picasso spent much of his artistic career in France, and the nation returned his affection in the form of the Musée National Picasso in Paris. This chronological career retrospective culled ...(Read More)

Most frequently associated with art worlds in Spain, Paris, and New York, Pablo Picasso also had lifelong connections with Britain, and an enormous effect on British modernism. This exhibit catalog, ...(Read More)